Homemade Cheese Sauce Powder {Vegan}

While we’re not vegans, I like the idea of creating our own homemade cheesy powder for macaroni and cheese. This recipe, adapted from Celine Steen and Joni Marie Newman’s The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions will let us make kid-friendly mac and cheese from natural food items in our pantry.While it’s a lot of ingredients, once it’s all mixed up it’s easy to add dairy-free milk or water, heat and add to pasta. It’s just like opening up an orange powder packet to add to macaroni, without all the unpronounceables. UPDATE: we made Kid-Friendly Vegan Mac and Cheese the next day and the kids loved it.

Mix powder in a 1:2 ratio powder to water or dairy-free milk and heat over medium heat before adding to prepared pasta. For example: mix 1/2 cup powder and 1 cup water or soy milk, heat over medium heat until thickened and mix with 1 pound prepared pasta.

Store refrigerated for up to a month or freeze.

The Results
This was really simple to mix up and I’m looking forward to trying it on some kid lunches and adult snacks. I think it may also work well in dips and slow cooker recipes as a cheese sauce substitute.

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I think that could definitely work. I've used it on Cheesy Popcorn before. My only issue was getting it to stick. To accomplish that, I had to add a bit of olive oil to the popcorn. Let me know how it works out!

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